Louisiana officials want to expand black bear hunting grounds to encompass wildlife management areas and private lands across the entire state. Black bear hunting has only been legal for the past two ...

Louisiana prides itself on an abundance of wildlife, from alligators moving through bayous to herons lifting from marsh grass, but one animal carries a special layer of meaning for the state. The ...

Non-resident landowners in Louisiana could soon buy a license to hunt the state’s black bears. A bill establishing a ...

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Louisiana's second iteration of its newly restarted black bear hunting season has ended with 16 bears killed, with the biggest weighing in at 565 pounds, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — A total of 16 Louisiana black bears were harvested during the second bear hunting season, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has announced. The harvest ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Notice of Intent was adopted by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission regarding the 2026 Louisiana black bear hunting season. The season will take ...

The Louisiana black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, once almost disappeared from the state entirely. The black bear was named the official state mammal in 1992. By the late twentieth ...